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I stumbled into the same problem yesterday without any luck. Apparently
using request.set/getAtttribute is pretty much useless in my experience. I
had to stick the data in the session instead using session.set/getAttribute.
Not a very attractive solution, but it works anyway.
Jason
Aaron Lindsey wrote:
> I'm having problems attaching an object to the request object in a servlet
> and pulling that object out again after forwarding to a jsp. I've created
> a bean called PopBean that I attach to the request. After forwarding to a
> jsp, I attempt to retrieve it from the request object and cast back to
> PopBean. I get a ClassCastException. If I run a getClass().getName() the
> result is PopBean. However, instanceof returns false when compared to
> PopBean. I can create new instances of PopBean in the jsp with no
> problem. I also can pass any of the standard java classes like Vector,
> String, etc. and pull them out with no problem. This problem only happens
> with classes that I have created myself.
> Does anyone have any ideas? I've been wrestling with this for a while
> without success. BTW, I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1 on Solaris. Thanks.
>
> Aaron
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